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but not a pest as a rule. In Baroda it is stated to occur on all growing 

 crops, and the Pusa collection contains examples reared at Balaghat 

 (Central Provinces) on rice, at Pusa on tobacco, at Ranchi on rice, and at 

 Palur (Madras) on varagu {Paspalum scrobiculutam). 



Amsacta moorei, Butl. 



Hmpsn., F. I., II, 27, Cat. Ill, 329 ; Proc. Second Entl. Meeting, 

 pp. 47, 53-55, 68, 83, 87, 91, 99, 179, 187, 189, 199, 203. 

 Occurs, together with A. alhistriga, in Mysore and Madras, principally 

 in the South Arcot district, on all low-growing crops. Also recorded 

 from SindbyHampson. 



Amsacta moorei sara, Swinh. 

 This form, sara, occurs in Bombay, where the larvae attack maize 

 at Dohad, and in the Punjab, where it has been reared from larvae on 

 Phaseolus radiatus at Jagadhri. A few of the specimens from Dohad 

 have the abdomen yellow. We have reared this at Pusa from Bombay 

 material and have prepared a coloured plate showing the life-history 

 [exhibited]. I am inclined to think that sara is a good species, distinct 

 from moorei, although I cannot give any morphological distinctions 

 but the male genitalia have not been compared. : 



Mr. Jhaveri. "We find it on the Bombay side also. We have used light-traps and 



caught a large number of moths. We, however, still got a large number 

 of caterpillars attacking plants. We also found Tachinid and Hymenop- 

 terous parasites on these caterpillars. 



Mr. Kunhi Kannan. Did you find out the proportion of males and females attracted to 

 the light-traps ? 



Mr. Jhaveri. Yes ; we did count these. The following are the details : — In the year 



1917, 7,581 moths were caught and out of these 3,336 were females 

 loaded with eggs and 4,245 were males. For the greater attraction of the 

 moths powerful lights, like Kitson lamps, were also used. In this way 

 a large number of moths was caught before they could lay eggs, and as 

 a result of this measure very much fewer caterpillars were found later 

 on in our experimental fields than in the cultivator's areas. During 

 the season 1918 we caught 3.192 moths by means of light-traps and of 

 these 1 ,227 were females and 1 ,965 were males. 



Mr. Fletcher. The difference in attraction to light in this Bombay form and in that 



found in Southern India seems to indicate that we are really dealing with 

 different species. 



